by Carly Lewis | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
Måneskin: Italian Rockers on a Journey for Global Human Connection “Rock and Roll Never Dies!” From buskers on La Via del Corso to Eurovision winners, Måneskin shows what it means to earn a growing global platform and use it well This year’s Eurovision Song Contest...
by Rebecca Lipperini | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
The Soothing Aesthetics of the Supermarket I love the supermarket — fiercely, obsessively, weirdly. I go to the supermarket when I feel overwhelmed. And it turns out I’m not alone. I used to hang out at my local grocery store every day and see hundreds of other people...
by Megan Cole | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
Seeing Ecocatastrophe: Environmentalism and the Aesthetics of Climate Change It’s a truism for Octavia Butler fans: the postapocalyptic California landscape of her landmark Parable of the Sower (1993) is nearly indistinguishable from contemporary reality. In...
by Thomas Sojka | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
In Pursuit of THE PURSUIT OF LOVE The 2020s have arrived, bringing sensational headlines on the state of the global economy that anticipate “another Roaring Twenties” or condemn the comparison as “absurd.” What these headlines miss, and often obscure, is the reality...
by Kaitlyn Lindgren-Hansen | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Universities Must Protect Workers, Not Profits Even in the best of times, graduate students occupy a precarious position in higher education. But with many universities failing to offer clear directives for what instruction will look like for the upcoming fall...
by Tina Borah | Jul 24, 2024 | Essays, Essays 2024
Challenging the Peripheral: Reading Assam in Reema Rajbanshi’s Sugar, Smoke, Song Growing up in the capital city of Guwahati, Assam, life was marked by recurring floods and occasional violence, shaping a unique resilience in middle-class girls like us. We were...
